What's new

For each new feature, you can see the version of the Hybiscus PDF Engine (e.g.

) it was introduced in. For Enterprise customers, this allows you to know which version of the Managed Cloud API to deploy.

• 🐞 Fixed a bug where if components are stacked in a Row component, they incorrectly occupied the full height of the component
  v4.11.1PDF engine

• 🚀 We've introduced a new section to our website, Templates, which gives you a selection of ready to use templates that you can paste straight into the Cloud Editor to get you going even faster!
• 🚀 New JavaScript / TypeScript / NodeJS SDK for Hybiscus API reaches v1

• 🚀 Beta release of our new JavaScript / TypeScript / NodeJS SDK for Hybiscus API

• 🐞 Fix bug with webhooks for report.completed event being called twice
• ✨ Add ability to configure colors in the Card component
  v4.11PDF engine

• ✨ Add more smaller font size options (for all components)
  v4.10PDF engine
• ✨ Add new options for customising padding inside Table rows and headings
  v4.10PDF engine
• 🚀 Hybiscus AI ✨ launches in Beta for all users. Learn more here.
  v1.37Cloud API
  version
• 🐞 Fixed bug with reports using a background image on the cover page leading to excessively large file sizes
• ✨ Further improvements to standardising on US English spelling in JSON schema for the Text, Image, Row and DoughnutRing components, with backwards compatibility with British English spelling
  v4.9PDF engine

• ✨ Added private instance of Cloud Editor to the Managed Cloud API
  v1.6Managed
  Cloud API

• 🚀 Beta release of DataTable component available for testing
  v4.8PDF engine
• 📢 Beta features launched on Hybiscus
• 📖 Added documentation for the Managed Cloud API

• ✨ Added support for setting font size of title in Section component
  v4.7PDF engine
• ✨ Added support for customising vertical alignment of text in table cells in Table component
  v4.6PDF engine
• ✨ Added font size options for rows and headings in Table component
  v4.5PDF engine
• ✨ Added support for customising the page margins
  v4.4PDF engine

• ✨ Add Tidy button to Cloud Editor to automatically format your JSON
• ✨ Added new option for URL link on Image component
  v4.3PDF engine
• ✨ Added new options for customising Y-ticks on Line Chart (v2)
  v4.2PDF engine

• ✨ Added support for adding a Cover page to your PDF report
  v4.1PDF engine
• ✨ Powerful new code-completion and better validation using our new JSON schema in the Cloud Editor. Read more about it here.
• 🐞 Fixed various bugs due to new JSON schema
  • PageBreak component incorrectly requiring options key
  • Overriding color theme variables using legacy color theme variables not working
  • Chart components incorrectly requiring x_label and y_label keys
  • Setting colours for individual bars in Bar Chart (v2) not working

• ✨ Added support to customise y-ticks in Timeseries Chart

• ✨ Added option to specify text in footer of every page.
• ✨ Added support for negative values in chart components.
• ✨ Added support for using any font and weight from Google Fonts. Read about it on the Themes page.
• ✨ Default horizontal_margin for Row set to 0 to improve layout appearance with default settings.
• ✨ Default horizontal_margin for Section set to 0 if highlighted is false to improve layout appearance with default settings.
• ✨ Added new layout options to Text component
• 💬 LineChart and BarChart components deprecated in favor of newer v2 variants

• 📖 Minor improvements to Getting started and component pages
• 💻 API v1.17 released - read about the changes in our blog post
  v1.17Cloud API
  version
• ✨ Added new SparkChart Line data viz component
• ✨ Added new SparkChart Ring data viz component
• ✨ Added new color themes
• ✨ Added new paragraph color theme variable
• ✨ Added new typography themes with separate heading and paragraph fonts
• 📖 Added copy code buttons to all code blocks in Docs

• 💻 API v1.16 released - read about the changes in our blog post
  v1.16Cloud API
  version
• 📖 Added anchor links to all headings in Docs
• 📖 Improved documentation for themes
• ✨ New names introduced for color theme variables (with full backwards compatibility)
• ✨ Added support for 3 custom color theme variables
• ✨ Added support for customising any color theme

• 🐞 Fixed bug with markdown lists not rendering correctly in Text component
• ✨ New improvements made to the Cloud Editor
• ✨ Added new radius option to Scatter Chart component to control dot size
• ✨ Re-introduced option to group and colour dots in Scatter Chart component
• ✨ Added improved legend drawing functionality to Scatter Chart and Line Chart components
• 🐞 Fixed bug with some space values not working with Vertical Spacer component
• 🐞 Fixed bug with column alignments' not working inside rows of Table component
• 🐞 Fixed bug with chart components' rendering bars with non-zero heights when value was 0
• 🐞 Fixed bug with highlighted functionality not working in Section component
• 🧼 All components' documentation updated to include a minimal working JSON example that can be copied straight into the Cloud Editor for a faster and easier user experience.
• ✨ Improved handling of generating Y-tick labels in Bar Chart (v2). This same behaviour has also been added to Horizontal Bar Chart for the X-axis.

• ✨ Added option to toggle sorting of data on X-axis of Bar Chart component
• ✨ More customisation options added to Card component.
• 🐞 Fixed bug with Line Chart (v1) component not visualising inside reports.

• 🐞 Fixed bug with subscription statuses being incorrect for some subscribers.

• ✨ Improvement to Section and Row component, resolving issues with nested Table components, that could not span multiple pages
• ✨ New config.enable_multi_page option added that makes it easier to enable building multi-page reports, without requiring to specify the number of pages required. See here for more details.
• ✨ Added markdown_format option to Text component to allow disabling markdown formatting of content.
• 🐞 Fixed bug with webhooks not being despatched

• 🐞 Fixed bug with Chart components not spanning entire width of parent component
• 🐞 Fixed bug with Chart components having a non-transparent background which would clash when nested in a highlighted Section component
• 🐞 Fixed bug with Chart.Line component not supporting negative values on X and Y axes
• 🐞 Fixed bug with Table component where too many columns would cause all content to scale down to fit in view

• ✨ Improved subscription management and handling of payments. See our FAQ for more details.

• 🐞 Improved error messages returned via API when using Cloud Storage functionality

• ✨ Add ability to customise formating of Y-axis tick labels for Bar Chart (v2).

• 🐞 Fixed bug where when width option was set to null, components would not maximise horizontal width
• ✨ Added better validation and more descriptive error messages for setting the width and columns options
• ✨ Added new Options page which centralises and details common options better, such as width and columns
• 🐞 Fixed bug with Table component not providing descriptive errors for incorrect JSON

• ✨ New redesign of Hybiscus website for 2023 🎉
• ✨ Download button for PDFs on Usage page of Dashboard now opens reports in new tab
• 🐞 Fix bug with icons in Card component no longer working
• ✨ / 🐞 Long Y-axis tick labels (due to using strings) no longer get cut off. Resolved by having the chart dynamically resize to accomodate the longer text. Applies to Horizontal bar chart.

• ✨ Added support for login / sign up using Google account
• 🐞 Fixed bug with CORS settings on API

• 🐞 Fixed bug with incorrect default value for curve_format for Timeseries Chart
• ✨ Added new Timeseries Chart component for visualizing timeseries data
• ✨ Added more customisation options for data visualization / chart components
• ✨ Added vertical / horizontal margin and column spacing options to Row and Section components
• ✨ / 🐞 New Vertical Spacer component introduced to address bugs with Spacer component in multi-page reports
• 🐞 Fixed bug with Table component not accepting integers and floats as cell values for headings and rows.
• 📦 v1 release of our NodeJS SDK with TypeScript, ESM and CommonJS support.

• ✨ New cell level control and column span features available in the Table component.
• ✨ New grouped bars option available for Bar chart (v2) component.

• ✨ Powerful instant search now available throughout Hybiscus documentation.
• ✨ Cloud Editor now saves your JSON definition to your local storage, allowing you to carry on from where you left off in the same browser after closing tabs. A 'Reset to default schema' is also available in the right-click context menu.
• ✨ Ability to disable the information header at the top of PDFs. See Customising report
• ✨ Support for creating landscape PDFs is now generally available. See Customising report for more details.

• ✨ Support for pagination on multi-page PDF reports

• ✨ Launch of the new Hybiscus Docs and Blog sites
• ✨ Added horizontal and vertical margin options to the Image, Table and Text components.
• ✨ Added extensive new layout and configuration options to Text, Table and Row components.
• ✨ Added text sizing, text colour, background colour, rounding, etc. options to Image component
• ✨ Added text sizing, text colour and background colour options to the Text component
• ✨ Added markdown support to the Image component

• ✨ Added support for the width key to the Section component to support placing them inside a Row
• 🐛 Fixed bugs with the auto-generated Python code in the Cloud Editor
• 🐛 Fixed bug with Cloud Editor not generating JPG previews via the keyboard shortcut

• ✨ Beta release of the Hybiscus ☁️ Cloud Editor that let's you design and develop PDFs directly in your browser. Try it out now and share feedback with team!

• ✨ New ProgressBar component for visualising progress in a process
• ✨ Added option for caption in Image component
• ✨ Users can now view their usage including quotas and links to download previously generated PDFs directly in the dashboard under the new Usage section.

• 📊 New more powerful chart components with greater control over layout and design (Bar chart, Line chart, Horizontal bar chart)
• 🔗 Support for webhooks to notify you once your reports are ready

• ✨ Support for uploading your PDF reports directly to your ☁️ cloud storage provider
• ✨ New DoughnutRing component for visualising data on a radial axis.

• ✨ New PageBreak component added for multi-page PDF reports
• ✨ New Spacer component added for vertical spacing
• ✨ Support for providing a custom logo to use in place of the report title for paid plan users (Startup and Enterprise).
• 🐛 Fixed issues with bold text and lists specified via Markdown not working in the Text component

• ✨ New API endpoint /api/v1/get-remaining-quota added to get details on remaining quota on demand
• ✨ New headers added to /api/v1/build-mode (X-SINGLE-PAGE-REPORTS-REMAINING, X-MULTI-PAGE-REPORTS-REMAINING) response that provide details on remaining quota
• ✨ New ScatterChart component added